Talking Shop: My Appearance on Wilshire & Washington’s BlogTalkRadio Show

Shameless self-promotion alert!!! Tonight I bellied up to the pundit bar and appeared as a guest on the BlogTalkRadio edition of the excellent blog Wilshire & Washington. Maegan Carberry, who I met on the Obama campaign invited suckered me into a rough Q&A by herself and Variety Editor-At-Large Ted Johnson. I don’t know who keeps [...]

Getting Personal With Mike Gravel About His Past Bankruptcy

Former Senator Mike Gravel’s campaign released this video a week back, and I thought it worth posting here. It will get nowhere near the attention of the Rock or Fire videos. That’s a shame because there is something much more important going on in this piece than there was in those artsy one-off clips. In [...]

Biden on a Roll – YouTube Response Videos

A moment ago, I posted a nice clip from the Biden campaign on the importance of the Iowa Caucuses that defies their M.O. of posting clips from news shows and debate performances. Now, they follow up with a quartet of video responses through YouTube. I’ve pulled them into the playlist below. I would have like [...]

This Never-Before-Seen Footage…

The Third Pillar: Exclusivity In the First Pillar: Frequency, I discussed the need to shoot a lot and release a lot – providing you with the two things that make your program work: footage and viewers. In the Second Pillar: Interactivity, I tackled what to put into your pieces – namely, two-way conversation via video. [...]

Missed Connections

The Second Pillar: Interactivity You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? Then who the hell else are you talking… you talking to me? Well I’m the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you’re talking to? (Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver) Yesterday, we talked about the First Pillar – [...]

What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?

The First Pillar: Frequency The first of the five pillars holds its own benefits, while providing a foundation for the others. Frequency refers not only to releasing often, but also to shooting often. An effective web video program requires a lot of footage. Shooting all the time allows you to build a library, which you [...]

A week late, and seven dollars short!

Like never before, the media war of the 2008 Presidential campaign is unfolding online. Yet, for all the work of the campaigns, the one piece that broke through – at least to bloggers and the media…who knows about real people? – had its genesis in the wild, rather than from one of the campaigns. Whole [...]